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Asia
Eastern Pacific Shipping returns to Jinling for more LNG-fuelled car carriers
Singapore-based Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS) has returned to China Merchants Jinling Shipyard for more LNG-fuelled car carriers. The Idan Ofer-controlled…
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Offshore
Hartnoll buys into OSV owner Britoil
Tim Hartnoll’s family private investment business, HICO, has acquired a significant stake in Singapore-based Britoil Offshore Services. Founded by David…
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Finance and Insurance
BW Offshore closes $1.15bn project financing for Barossa FPSO
Oslo-listed BW Offshore has completed the $1.15bn project debt financing for the construction and operation of the floating production storage…
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Asia
Singapore to provide jabs to select number of crew
Singapore, one of the world’s most active port cities, will be rolling out a limited vaccination programme for non-resident foreign…
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Tankers
Hafnia grows fleet in joint ventures with Andromeda and CSSC Shipping
Oslo-listed product tanker unit of the BW Group, Hafnia, has grown its fleet through two joint ventures, adding a pair…
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Tankers
FSL offloads chemical tanker
Singapore’s FSL Trust Management has sealed a deal to sell its 2006-built chemical tanker, . FSL did not reveal the…
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Containers
X-Press Feeders snaps up Jebsen boxship
Sea Consortium-controlled feeder operator X-Press Feeders has purchased the 2006-built from Jebsen Shipping. Multiple brokers report the Tim Hartnoll-led company…
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Containers
ONE and UCS open Hamburg container centre
Japanese containerline Ocean Network Express (ONE) and Universal Container Services (UCS) have opened a dedicated container storage centre at the…
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Containers
Straits Orient Lines adds feeder boxship pair
Straits Orient Lines (SOL), part of Transworld Group Singapore headed by Mahesh Sivaswamy, is expanding its fleet with the acquisition…
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Containers
More new entrants ready for the booming transpacific
There’s another new entrant on the booming transpacific trades. Shanghai Jin Jiang Shipping (SJJ) will provide two 1,713 teu ships…
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Tankers
FSL Trust acquires Norbulk tanker for James Fisher charter
Singapore’s FSL Trust Management has purchased the 2008-built oil/chemical tanker from Norbulk Shipping for $5m and sealed a bareboat charter…
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Dry Cargo
Grindrod works its Japanese contacts to net an ultramax
Grindrod Shipping is buying the 2019 Japanese-built ultramax bulk carrier, , which it currently charters in from its owners, Sanzo…
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Gas
Singapore’s Pavilion Energy appoints interim CEO
Pavilion Energy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Temasek, has named Alan Heng as interim group chief executive officer. Heng will succeed…
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Tech
MISC invests in three Singapore start-ups
MISC, Malaysia’s flagship shipping line, has revealed it has invested, along with Boston Consulting, in three Singapore-based start-ups. The three…
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Renewables
WEM Marine doubles up on crew transfer vessels at Strategic Marine
Singapore-based shipbuilder Strategic Marine has secured contracts to build an additional pair of crew transfer vessels for UK-based offshore support…
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Gas
Odfjell exits gas carrier sector with sale of ethylene carrier duo to BW Epic Kosan
BW Epic Kosan has reached an agreement with Odfjell Gas Shipowning to acquire two 9,000 cu m ethylene carriers, Bow…
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Offshore
Techmar Services acquires Global 1 IRM
Techmar Services, part of the Heidmar group, has acquired a majority stake in Singapore-based offshore oil and gas technical services…
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Containers
OM Maritime makes headlines again, shelling out $54m for a 17-year-old 5,000 teu ship
OM Maritime continues to make headlines for the extraordinary prices it is willing to pay for box tonnage. The Singapore-based…
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Environment
Singapore launches maritime decarbonisation centre
The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) today announced the formation of the Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD)…
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Bunkering
Berge Bulk revealed as second shipowner to invest in budding British atomic power venture
James Marshall-led Berge Bulk has been revealed as the second shipowner to invest in Core Power, a British firm developing…
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